Self-operating talking-machine



G. w'. WOOD-WARD. SEU OPERATING-TALKING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

GARRETT W. WOODWARD. OE CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 J. HERBERTBENJAMIN,

\ OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SELF-OPERATING TALKING-MACHINE.

Specificati n of L t r a t Patented J une 10,- 1.919.

Application filed April 26. 1918. Serial No. 230,858.

, To all '/1om it may concern:

hit known that I, GARRETT NV. (001* zum, a citizen of the United States,residing at (.hicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Self-OperatingTalkingll'lachines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in talking machines of the typewherein provi sion is made for automatically playing in succession aplurality of records without re.- quiring any action on the part of theoperator; and my primary objects are to provide improvements in machinesof this type to the end that the'mechanism. may be simplified andrendered less expensive; that the space occupied by the mechanism andrecords may be reduced to the minimum, particularly with a view toproviding a machine of such size that it will be especially desirablefor household use; and to provide for the re-playing of any record, andby a simple manipulation, so condition the machine that it may be playedvin the usual.

way; and other objects as will be understood from the followingdescription.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in 'sideelevation, with certain parts broken away, of a cabinet talking machineconstructed in accordance with my. invention, the partsillustra'ted'being shown in the positions they assume While playing oneof the records. Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevational view of the operatingmechanism shown in Fig. 1, certain parts being broken away and viewingthe recordfeeding devices at the irregular line 2-2 on Fig. 4. Fig. 3 isa section taken at the line 3-3 on Fig. 2 and viewed in the direction ofthe arrows. Fig. 4 is a plan section taken at the line 4-4 on Fig. 2 andviewed in the direction of the arrows. Fig 5 is an enlarged broken viewtaken at the line 55 on Fig. 4 and viewed in the direction of thearrows. Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic View of one of the similarrecord-feeding disks,

- showing a single recordthereon, this view illustrating one of theintermediate positions of thefeeding disks. Fig. 7 isa plan view of thedisk of Fig. o. Fig. 8 is a view in elevation. partly sectional, of thefeeding.- disk of Figs. 6 and 7, together with its supporting andoperating mechanism, the disk being shown in the position it assumeswhen in record-feeding position, a portion ofa record being shown bydotted lines, in a position preparatory to feeding, and by full lines inthe actof dropping from the feeding means to the turn-table of thetalking machine mechanism. Fig. 9 isa view in side elevation of thelower end of the upper for raising and lowering the tone-arm andswinging it out of the path of movement of the records in the feeding ofthe same to the turn-table. Fig. 12 is a section, taken at the line 1212on Fig. 11 and viewed in the direction of the arrows.- Fig. 13 is a viewin elevation of a cam-device forming a part of the mechanism of Figs. 11and 12; and Fig. 14, a modification of. the intermittent drivingmechanism of Fig. 4.

In the particular construction shown, 15 represents a cabinet of thegeneral shape and proportions, as commonly provided 'for housing. themechanism of the usual nonautomatic talking -machine, this cabinethousing a concealed horn 16, the restricted end of which extendsupwardly at the back portion of the cabinet where it terminates in y asocket-section 17 supported on a bracket 18 which may be of any suitableconstruction,

such asis commonly employed in the art, the reproducer communicatingwith a hollow section 22 carried thereby andtermmatmg in a segmentalball-portion 23 pivoted in the outer socketed extremity 24 of thetone-arm 19, as represented at 25 to adapt the reproducer to be swung upand down on its pivot, as hereinafter described.

The cabinet 15 contains in its upper portion, which is equipped with thehinged top 26,a vertically movable frame carrying the record drivingmechanism, which maybe of any suitable construction. In the drawings,and as I would prefer to manufacture my improved machine, the drivingpower is an electric motor 27 controlled through a switch button 27 onthe cabinet, this motor being supported in the frame/26 and driving ashaft 28 having a governor 29, this shaft being in the form of a worm,not shown, meshing with a worm-wheel 3O fixed on the upright shaft 31journaled in the frame '26 and equipped at its upper'end, which ispreferably socketed, as indicated at 32, withpawl-mechanism which, asshown, comprisesa pair of pawls 38 mounted in a circular boss 39depending from the underside of a gear 40 having journal support on theframe 43. These pawls, which are diametricallyopposed, slide in channels41 in the boss 39 and are backed up by a circular springdevice 42, whichyieldingly holds these pawls ininterlocking relation to the spiral onthe stem 35. The boss 39 rests upon the upper surface of a stationarycross piece 43 rigidly secured to the inside of the cabinet 15, thelower end of this boss being of reduced diameter at the portion 44, atwhich portion it extends through an opening in the cross piece 43 andhas secured thereto, below this cross piece, a collar 45 to preventupward displacement of the boss 39. The

construction of this part-of the mechanism is such, as will beunderstood, that in the rotation of the gear 40 in counter-clockwisedirection in Fig. 4, the stem 35 and record- 'driving parts carriedthereby, will be caused to'bodily descend, and if the operator wishes tobodily lift'the mechanism just referred to, this may be done by drawingup on the frame 26, the spiral 36 running idly across the ends of thepawls 38.

In accordance with the preferred illustrated embodiment of my invention,I provide the records to be automatically played,

in a pile or stack, and at the conclusion of the playlng of any onerecord, automatically move the tone-arm out of the path through WlllCl'lthe records move in the changing operation and cause, by a movement in asubstantially vertical plane, another record to be presented forplaying, it being preferred that the records be fed one at a time from astack thereof located in spaced relation above the turn-table. 33, to aposition on the turn-table,. on which the records pile up in superposedposition as the successive plays ing of the same progresses, adescription of the mecahnism for feeding the records one by one to theturn-table being as follows 2.

' I Grouped about the spindle 31 preferably equi-distantly spaced apart,to extend vertically, are spindles 46, each formed of a lower section 47and an upper section 48.' The lower spindle-sections are journaled attheir upper and lower ends in bearings 49 and 50 stationarily mounted inthe cabinet 15, and

each of the sections '47 is provided at its lower end with agear 51rigidly connected therewith and meshing with the gear 40, the gears 51being grouped about the gear 40/ as shown in Fig. 4. The upper ends ofthe spindle-sections 47 contain sockets, as indicated at 52, the upperwalls of these sockets being recessed, as indicated at 53, to receivedepending lugs 54 provided on the lowerends of the spindle-sections 48,the extremities of which, represented at 55, are-of reduced diameter andfit into the recesses 53, the purpose of this construction being toprovide for the disengagement of ;the

spindle-sections 48' from the sections 47 and the interlocking of thesesections together to permit the sections .48 to be driven from thesections 47, as hereinafter explained. Each of the spindle-sections 48is equipped at its upper endwith a disk 56 rotatable periphery, thisgroove being of a thickness slightly greater than that of therecord tobe used on the machine. The upper flange 58 of the disk 56 tapers towardits outer peripheral edge, as represented in the draw-- I therewith andcontaining a groove 57 in its ings, and is cut away to the depth'of thegroove 57 as represented at 59, The lower fiangeof this disk,represented at 60, is cut away to the depth of the groove 57 asindicated at 61, the purpose of these cut away portions in combinationwith the groove 57,

being that of effecting, by the rotation of the disks'56, the separationof the lower- 'most record supported by these disks, from the stack ofrecords above it to permit thislowermost record to descend into aposition to be played, and hold the remaining records of the stack'orpile in supported position. To this end the disks 56 are so arranged, asshown, that in the normal position of the parts of themachine, thelowermost record of the stack or pile thereof supported by .thesedisks-extends at its edges, 1nto the grooves 57 of the disks 56, the uper and lower flanges 58 and 60 of these isks embracing the record, asshown in Fig. 2. In.

the rotation of these disks in clockwise direction, the cut awayportions 61 of these disks are moved into registration with the edges ofthis lowermost. record while the flange 58 is interposed between thelatter and the next record above it,- with the result of permitting thislowermost record to fall, as shown in Fig. 8, to become superposed onthe record or pile thereof, previously placed upon the turntable, therecord runnin down a rod 62, which screws into the soc et 32 in thecenter of the platform 33 and passes upwardly through the central holesuniversally provided in talking machine records. Continued rotation of'the disks 56 in clockwise direction carries the cut away portions 59thereof into registration with the edges of the lowermost record of thestack, whereupon the stack of records lowers to a point where they aresupported by the lower flange 60, as represented in Fig. 6, and furthermovement of the disks 56 in the same direction carries the flanges 58into a position wherein they extend between the lowermost record of thestack and the one next above it, as represented in Fig. 2,, it beingunderstood that this operation of separating the lowermost record fromthe stack discharging it to the turn-table and repositioning anotherrecord of the stack for delivery to the turn-table upon the nextoperation of the feeding-mechanism, is accomplished during the turningof each disk 56 throughout one revolution.

Reference-has been made to the vertically movable frame 26 carrying theturn-table and driving mechanism therefor, this feature of the machinepermitting of the lowering of the turn-table, each time a record isdelivered to it from the feeding-mechanism referred to, a distancesubstantially equal to the thickness'of a record, so that the reproducer21 will always be located in substantially the same horizontal planewhile playing a record, regardless of the number of records superposedon the turn table'. The connectiomas it will be noted, between thespindles 46 and gear 40, through the medium of'the ears 51, serves tocause the gear 40, each tame the feed disks are rotated for the purposehereinbefore explained, to revolve 'sulficiently to permit the frame 26to lower a distance equal to the thickness of a record.

As the spindles 4=6 are connected together through the medium of thegears 40 and 51 to. operate in unison, it is necessary only that thedriving power be applied to one of the spindles and to thls end Iprovide on one of the spindle-sections 47, a relatively long 1on 63 isdriven from the' shaft 31-thr0ugh the medium of-intermittently-operating mechanism, a description of the form of thismechanism shown, being as follows:

Journaled.on the frame-member 26 isa gear 68 meshing with the elongatedpinion 63 and movable up and down on the latter, this gear being rigidlyconnected with the star-'Wheel 69 forming a Geneva stop, theintersecting channels 70 in -which cotiperate &

with a pin 71 carried by a gear 72 arranged eccentric of the axis ofthis gear. The gear 72 meshes with a pinion 73 rigid'on a gear 74 which,in turn, meshes with a pinion 75 on the shaft 31. The gear 74 and pinion73 are supported atthe slotted portion 76 of an arm 77 pivoted about theshaft 31, this arm havino two extensions 78 and79, the extension 79having journaled thereon, a gear 80 which meshes with the pinion 75.Means hereinafter described, are provided for shifting the arm 77 tocause the gear 72 to be driven directly from a friction roller 80 on thegear 80, or through the train of gears H and 73 as desired, for apurpose hereinafter explained.

It will be noted from the foregoing that powerfor rotating the inion 63and consequently the record-fee ing devices, is applied intermittentlyonly, namely, during the rotation of the Geneva stop 69 by engagementwith the pin 71. Inasmuch as the record-feeding devices are not to beoperated to shift the records until the record previously positionedforplaying, has been played to the end, the gears should be so proportionedthat this result will be accomplished. With the ordinary ten inchrecord, as now commonly provided, it is preferred that the ratio ofthese gears be such that the record-feeding devices will be operatedeach time the platform revolves substantially' 300 times, when the lever77 is set to cause the drive from the shaft 31 to be through the mediumand 72.

Coiiperating with the swinging tone-arm 19 is a mechanism forautomatically lifting the reproducer 21 from the record at theconclusion of the playing of the latter,

of the gears 75, 74, 73,

swinging the tone-arm with the reprodueer to a position in which it isout of the path of movement of the descending record, and

after a new record-has been positioned on the revolving platform,swinging the tonearm to cause'the reproducer to extend over 7 the recordand thereupon lowering. the reproducerinto playing engagement with therecord, a description of these means, as I prefer to construct them,being as follows:

Pivoted to the lower end of the tone-arm on a shaft 81is a rock-lever 82which extends at one end into the tone-arm where it is connected withv aflexible medium, as for example a wire 83, which slides against theelbow-portion ofthe tone-arm and is connected at its upper end, at 84,with the Inn-e'r end of the member 22, whereby when the lever '82 isrocked in clockwise direction in Fig. 2, the reproducer 21 will belifted free of the record beneath it. The outer end of the lever 82,which worksthrough a slot 85 in the socket 17, this slot being elongatedin both directions, extends across the top of a vertically-movablemember, or frame, 86

mounted on stationary guides 87 with which it telescopes, this framecooperating with a The relation of these parts is such that in.

the rotation of the cam 88, as hereinafter described, the frame 86 willbe raised from the normal position shown in Fig. 11 to a position inwhich the lever 82 is moved to a position'in which the reproducer 21 israised out of engagement with the record. The cam 88 carries aneccentrically-disposed pin 90 which extends into an elongated slot 91'in an uprightly-disposed lever 92 pivoted, as indicated at 93 to the artof a bracket 94 carrying the rods 87 he upper end of the lever 92, whichis thus free 'to rock on its pivot 93in either direction in Fig. 11, is

' that they will extend into over-lapping position relative to the outerend of the lever in the fornri of a cross-bar 95 on which tappets 96 aremounted to beadjustable along this bar, these tappets being of suchheight of a bevel pinion 97 meshing with a bevel pinion 97? rigid withthe cam 88, the bevel.- gear 97 being rigid on an inclined shaft 98journaled at its opposite ends in bearings 99 and 100 on a stationarypart of the machine. The shaft98 has Journaled thereon, a bevel pinion101,. whichmesheswith the bevel pinion 64, releasable means forclutching the gear 101 to the shaft 98 being provided whereby the frame86and rock-lever 92 are actuated from the bevel-gear 64:. These reileasable means comprise a spring-finger 102 .connected at one end witha sleeve 103 on the gear 101 and carrying a pin 104 at its free end,which enters and interlocks with a slot 105 in the shaft 98.

A description of the operation of the machine in so far as it has beendescribed, is as follows: v

Assuming that a pile ofrecords 34 is supported on the feed-disks 56 andthe needle of the repmducer-portion 22 of the sound-reproducingmechanism is traveling in the spiral" groove of a record being driven bythe turntable 33, as the needle nears the end of the record beingplayed, the pin 71 engages the Geneva stop which rotates the latter andthrough the gear 68, the pinion 63 (Fig. 6) with the result of rotatingthe one of the feed-disks /56 connected therewith and through the mediumof the gears 51 andcentral gear 40, rotating the other two feeddisks 56,which are thus caused to simultaneously rotate in the same direction.Concurrently with the rotation of these disks, the

ar-connection 64 and 101 between the spindle 46 and the shaft 98, drivesthe latter and throughits gear-connection 97 and 97 with the shaft 88,the cam 88 is rotated with the result of lifting the frame 86 androcking lifting it clear of the record. The left-hand V supportedthereby, but following the swinging of the tone-arm as stated, themutilated portions 61 of these flanges come into registration with theedges of the lowermost record and the latter thereupon slides down thestem-62 to superposed position on the previously-played record on theturn-table 33. In thisdischarging operation, the .unmutilated portionsof the top flanges 58 engage the record next to be discharged (Fig. 8)

and .thus support the-remaining records of the pile. As the feed-disks56 continue to revolve, the mutilated portions 59 of the top flanges 58register with the edges of the records and the entire pile descends andrests on the lower flanges 60, and before.

' tappet 96 in Fig. 11 under the rocking ac-- tion of the lever 92 movesto the right in this these disks finish their single revolution, the

upper flanges 58 move into position between 1 the two lowermost records(Fig. 2) the normal position of the parts. The parts are so constructedand arranged that closely fol lowing the record-feeding operation, the

newly-positioned record and lowered into engagement with the outer endof its recordgroove, whereupon the selection presented by this record isplayed, the repositioning of 'thereproducer as just stated beingeffected by the swinging of the lever 92 to the left in Fig. 11, whichswings the tone-arm horizontally to a position in which its reproduceris above the record, and the loweringof the frame 86 when thecam-portion 89 reaches its uppermost position which permits the lever82.to swing back to normal position in which the reproducer engages therecord The rotation of the gear 40 simultaneously with the rotation ofthe gears 51, causes the pawl-devices 42 to rotate therewith in clock:

wise direction Fig. 3 with the result of permitting the frame 26 andparts carrled thereby, to lower, these parts being so constructed andproportioned that this-frame together with the turn-table 33 and otherparts carried thereby, will lower with each record-feeding operation adistance substantially equal to ."the thickness of a record. Thus theplane in which the records are played remains substantially a constant.

- It will be understood that in the repositioning of records forautomatic feeding and in restoring the machine. for normal,nonautomatie, playing, the operator may readily bodily lift the frame 26and attendant parts, the pawls 38 running idly over the threads of thescrew.36. It will furthermore be noted that in the raising and loweringof the frame 26, the gear 68 slides lengthwise of the pinion 63 whilemaintaining engagement therewith.

The normal position of the lever 77 is that shown in Fig. 4 wherein thedrive of the gear 72 is through the gears 75, 74, and 73, these gearsbeing so proportioned that the necessary time is given for performingthe operations hereinbefore explained at the conclusion-of the playingof a record. It may become desirable, however, as for example, in

repositioning the tone-arm for replaying a record without change, 72 andI have provided for this by the pivoting of the lever 77 as stated andthe provision of the gear 80 and roller 80 in addition to the gears 73and 74. The lever may connect With a spring 106 which holds it in tospeed up the gear I the position shown in Fig. 4 and it may be equippedwith any suitable operating mechanism, as for example the shiftableelement 107 pivoted to the lever 77 at 108 and having a hand-piece 109with" two notches 110 and 111 cooperating with a spring detent 112 on astationary part'of the machine. When the hand-piece '109'is intheposition shown in the drawing, the gears 5, 74,73, and72 mesh, andwhen pulledoutwardly to en the detent 112v at the notch 110, the driveis from gear 75, through gear 80, and roller 80 to gear 72.

.The button 109 may, together with other buttons represented at 113 and114, be located at any desirable and. convenient place on the machine,as for example as shown in Fig. 1, the buttons 113 and 114 coiiperatingwith elements, as explained-of the button 109, forcontrolling thelengthwise movement of blocks 115 and 116 slidable 'on the spindle 47and shaft 98, respectively, for

cooperation with the spring devices and 104, to clutch and unclutch thepinion-(- the tone-arm and reproducer are actuated as hereinbeforedescribed With the result of repositioning the reproducer at thebeginning of the record played by the previous operagage tion. Thusunder the control of the operator, any one of the records may beautomatically played as many times in succession as desired, and ifduring this repositioning of the reproducer it is desired to speed upthis operation, this may be done through gear 72 through the button 109to drive the the gear 80 and roller 80.

The tappets 96 should be adjusted to such 1 record to be played inthereturn of the reproducer to playing position, the adjustment featureof these tappets permitting of the proper automatic positioning of thereproducer for records of different diameters. The slotted-armconstruction (77) of Fig. 4 is also provided to adapt the machine to theuse of records of different diameters. Where records of difi'erentdiameters, involving a greater length of spiral indented groove forcoiiperation with the stylus, are used, the gear 74 should be larger andwould be substituted for that shown, the slot 76 permitting of theadjustment of such larger gear relative to the pinion to insure theproper mesh. Y

In the machine shown, provision is made for automatically stopping themachine after a predetermined number of records have been played, thisbeing accomplished by a switch shown in Fig. 2 and interposed'in thecircuit for driving the motor'27. The switch shown is formed'of a pairof contacts 117 and 118 on a block 119, the contact 118 being a'spring-contact normally closing the frame 26 lowers to a point where itbearsv down on the rod 122, it breaks the motorcircuit and the machinestops. By adjusting the tube 120 vertically on the frame, the machinemay be set to play any desired number of the records charged into themachine,

a scale on the tube permitting the operator to readily position the tubeto provide for used as in thecase of the usual machine, in

. other Words, played by the manual application of the records to theturn-table and the the playing of the desired number of records.

'When it is desired that the machine be manual manipulation of thetone-arm and reproducer 21, the operator lifts the spindlesections 48.from thesections 47 and by operating the buttons 113 and 114,disconnects ner, to be constantly driven, to the gear 75, to

cause the pinion 63 to operate in the desired timed relation to the gear75.

lVhile 1 have illustrated and described a particular constructionembodying my invention, I do not wish to be understood as intending tolimit it thereto as the same may be variously modified and alteredwithout departing from the spirit of my invention, it being my intentionto claim my invention as fully and completely as the prior state of theart will permit.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In atalking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,- meansfor rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swinging hollow tone-arm and a reproducer portion connectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the record-support,means, extending into the interior of said tone-arm and connected wlthsaid reproducer-portion, operating automatically,

to first lift said reproducer from the record on said support, andthereafter swin said tone-arm out of a position imme iately above saidsupport comprising a lever pivoted on said tone-arm and arranged toserve as a means of turning said tone-arm with a connection fromsaidlever to said reproducerwhereby when said lever is rocked saidreproducer is rocked on said tone-arm, and means for rocking said leverand thereafter bodily swinging it to first rocksaid reproducer out ofengagement withthe record and thereafter swingsaid tone-arm to one side.

2. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involvlng ahorizontally swinging tone-arm and a repre'ducer portion conneetedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the record-support,and means, operating automatically, to first lift said reprodueer fromthe record on said support, and 'thereaft'c f" swing said tonearm out ofa position immediately above said support comprising a lever pivoted onsaid tone arm and arranged to serve as a means of turning said tone-armwith a connection from said lever to said reproducer whereby when saidlever is rocked said reproducer is rocked on said tone-arm, means forrocking said lever and thereafter bodily swinging it to first rock saidreprodueer out of engagement with the record and thereafter swing saidtone-arm to one side comprising a membershiftable in one direction andengageable by said lever for rocking said lever, a second member movablein a direction cross-wise of the direction .of movement ofsaidfirst-named member and engageable by said lever for bodily moving thelatter and means for actuating said members. i

3. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support,"sound-reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swinging tone-arm and a reproducer portion connectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the record-support,means, operating automatically, to first lift said reproduccr from therecord on said support, and thereafter swing said tone arm out of aposition immediately above said support comprising .a lever pivoted onsaid tone-arm and arranged to serve as a means of turning said tone-armwith a connection from said lever to said reproducer whereby when saidlever is rocked said reproducer is rocked on said tone-arm, means forrocking said lever and thereafter bodily swinging it to first rock saidreproducer out of engagement with the record and thereafter swing saidtone-arm to one side comprising a member shiftable in one direction andengageable by said lever for rocking said lever, a second member movablein a direction cross-wise of the direction of movement of saidfirst-named member and engageable by said lever for bodily moving thelatter and cam-means for actuating said members.

4. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swinging tone-arm and a reproducer portion connectedtherewitlrand movable thereon toward and" away from the record-support,means, operating automatically, tofirst lift said reproducer from therecord on said support, and thereafter swing said tone-arm out of aposition immediatlyabove said:

support comprising a lever pivoted on said from said lever to saidreproducer whereby ,-when' said lever is rocked said reproducer isrocked on said tone-arm, means for rocking said lever and thereafterbodily swinging it to first rock saidreproducer out of engagement withthe record and thereafter swing said tone-arm to one side comprising areciprocable member engaged by said lever for rocking sald lever, a rockmember 'engageable by said lever for bodily movingthe latter, and meansfor actuating said members.

5. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involvmg ahorizontally swmging hollow tone-arm and a reproducer portion .connectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the recordsupport,means extendmg into the interior of said tone-arm and connected withsaid reproducer-portion, operating automatically,

to first. lift said reproducer portion from the record on said support,and thereafter swing said tone-arm out of a position immediately abovesaid support comprising a lever pivoted on said tone-arm and extendinginto the interior serve as a meansof turning said tone-arm, with aconnection in said tone-arm from said lever to said reproducor-portion,whereby when said lever is rocked said reproducerportion is rocked onsaid tone-arm, and means for rocking said lever and thereafter bodilyswinging it 'to first rock said 1-eprodricer-section out of engagementwith the record and thereafter swing said tonearm to one side.

6. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound -reproducing mechanism involvinga horizontally swinging hollow tone-arm and a reproducer-portionconnected therewith and movable thereon toward and away from therecord-support, and means extending into the interior of said tone-armand connected with said reproducer-portion, operating automatically,

' to first lift said reproducor-portion from the po rtion is rocked onsaid tone-arm, and

record on said support, and thereafter swing said tone-arm out of aposition nnmedlately above said support comprising a lever pivoted onsaid tone-arm and extending into the interior of the latter and arrangedto serve as a means of turning said tone-arm,

a flexible element connected with said lever and with saidreprodricer-portion, whereby when-sald lever is rocked saidreproducermeans for rocking said lever and thereafter bodily swinging itto first rock said reproducer-portion out of engagement with the recordand thereafter swing said tone-arm to one side.

7 In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotatmg said support, sound reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swing ing tone-arm anda reproducer portion connectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the record-support,

and means, operating automatically, to first lift said reproducer fromthe record on said support, and thereafter-swingsaid tone-arm out of aposition. immediately above said support comprising a lever pivoted onsaid tone-arn'i and arranged to serve as a means of turning saidtone-arm with a connection of the latter and arranged tofrom said leverto said reproducer whereby when said lever is rocked said reproducer isrocked on said tone-arm, and means for rocking said lever and thereafterbodily swinging-it to first rock said reproducer out of engagement with.the record and thereafter swing said tone-arm to one side comprising amember slnftable 1n one direction and cngageable by said lever forrocking said lever, a secondanember movable in a direction crosswise ofthe direction of movement of said first-named member and en-.

gageable by said lever for bodily moving the latter and means foractuating said members, said second member being formed of ad ustableparts whereby the extent of bodily movement of the lever may beregulated.

from said lever to said reproducer whereby when said lever is rockedsaid reproducer is rocked on said tone-arm and, means for rocking saidlever and thereafter bodily swinging it to first rock said reproducerout of engagement with the record and thereafter swing said tone-arm toone side comprising a member shiftable in one direction and engageableby said lever for rocking l o sald lever, a second member movable 1n adirection crosswise'of the direction of movement of said first-namedmember and engageable by said lever for bodily moving the latterand'means for actuating said members, said second member being providedwith tappets adjustable thereon for controlling the bodily movement ofsaid lever.

9. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swinging tone-arm and'a reproducer portionconnectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from therecord-support, and means, operating automatically, to first liftsaidreproducer from the record onsaid support, and thereafter swing saidtone-arm out of a position immediately above said support comprising alever pivoted on said tone-'armand arranged to serve as a means ofturning said tone-arm, with a connection from said lever to saidreproducer whereby when said lever is rocked said reproducer is rockedon said tone-arm, and means for of engagement. with the recor rockingsaid lever and thereafter bodily swmging it to first rock said reroducer out and thereafter swing said tone-arm to one side comprising areciprocable member engaged by said lever for rocking the latter, a,rock member located adjacent said reciprocable member and provided withprojections for engaging said lever to bodily move the latter, and meansfor actuating said members.

10. In a talking machine, the combination of a rotatable record-support,means for rotating said support, sound-reproducing mechanism involving ahorizontally swinging tone-arm and a reproducer portion connectedtherewith and movable thereon toward and away from the record-support,and means, operating automatically, to first lift said reproducer fromthe record on said support, and thereafter swing said tone-arm aaoaaeiout of a position immediately above said support com rlslng a leverpivoted on said tone-arm an arranged to serve as a means of turning saidtone-arm with a connection from said lever to said reproducer wherebywhen said lever is rocked said reproducer is rocked on said tone-arm,and means forrocking said lever and thereafter bodily swinging it tofirst rock said reproducer out of engagement with the record and there-GARRETT W. WOODWARD.

